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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] DB and binary dependency
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:08:06
Message-Id: 4422E3ED.6070405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] DB and binary dependency by tvali
1 tvali wrote:
2 > Can someone tell me, which portage python commands should be used or
3 > which kind of file created, if i'm going to test this idea? -- in
4 > beginning, i would like to just add simple deps - are ebuilds the only
5 > place to change and is there any clear doc of them [as i wouldnt like to
6 > go through them all to be sure that there is no rarely used things i
7 > dont know]?
8 >
9 > Also, where i can find relations between useflags and c/c++ #defines?
10
11 USE flags technically have anything to do with C++ defines; they can
12 technically enable/disable any optional support ( docs, plugins, etc.. )
13 Usually USE flags interact with a packages build system (configure or
14 whatnot)
15
16 Dependencies are only in DEPEND, RDEPEND,PDEPEND.
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19 >
20 > --
21 > tvali
22 >
23 > Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring
24 > aircraft building progress by weight. -Bill Gates
25 >
26 > For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
27 > wrong. -H L Mencken
28 >
29 > Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when
30 > something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and
31 > practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
32 >
33 > http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html
34 > http://www.softwarequotes.com/
35
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